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"A reverse My Fair Lady tale about a pampered Manhattan socialite who must teach an unpolished drifter from the Louisiana Bayou how to fit in with New York City's upper crust. Somewhere between antagonistic dinner parties and tortured tux fittings, this pair of polar opposites slowly find a begrudging respect for one another--and perhaps even something more--as they adventure through the city that never sleeps"--
Violet Townsend has always said the...
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Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The unvarnished history of America's most notorious palace"--Inside jacket.
The story of Mar-A-Largo starts even before heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and investor E.F. Hutton built this ode to Roaring Twenties excess atop a coral reef in south Florida. How did Palm Beach's most famous manse become the chew toy for tabloid headline writers? Shanklin reveals the disputes, politics, and lifestyles of a power couple's dream oasis through its history...
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Oceano
Pub. Date
2019
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Español
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"Las niñas bien, primer libro publicado de Guadalupe Loaeza, ya contiene todas las vetas que la autora exploró más tarde en su obra y se ha convertido en su volumen emblemático. Con inocencia, gracia y espíritu divertido, en los textos que lo integran Loaeza retrata con fidelidad al sector más adinerado de la sociedad mexicana. Muy lejos de tener pretensiones académicas, sus piezas son crónicas maliciosas de diferentes aspectos de esas vidas...
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